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24 minutes ago, Dzilizzi said:

They do in a way.  A lot of the new products get added to Mercury, which is why I will WUP if I can't find a new "bundle" option.  I could still use version 9 otherwise.  The other thing they do is max the WUP at $300 before any sale prices.  So the more you can WUP at that price, the better.  Unless they add another upgrade bundle path - those can be much less and still give you another full year of WUP. 

But, yes, once you reach a certain level, the less expensive upgrade bundle options do disappear.  As a PC owner, it is not as imperative to WUP, since the OS doesn't usually break the code.  As I said, version 9 will still work with Win 10.  Apple, however, is not so nice to their users.  I can't blame Waves for charging to have to fix the coding on all their products to work with Apple's OS updates.  But it does mean us PC owners have to pay if we want to have all our products on the same version.  The newest Waves installer has made it a little more difficult to have multiple versions - though they may have fixed it since I last used it. 

 For the Mercury package this  seems fair enough. Some users grew tired of  what seemed like too many version changes .They lost some customers as a result.

It seems  PC users might be paying for some of the development for Apple because there likely isn't a separate Apple and PC fund.

Right now  my next move would probably be Diamond coming from Horizon with 71 added plugins. My voucher is 180.00. This can only be used for half of the purchase price. Mercury would still be pretty expensive for me as an upgrade. Cakewalk is scanning over 1400 plugins in my system....so I doubt I need another EQ or limiter. The channel strips look interesting.I'm not especially  impressed by the offerings right now. I'll look into it a little more. Maybe I'll change my mind.

Wait until Kenny gets hold of this one. ?

But not baboons? They are similar.

If anything, I think they should be rewarding customers who bought so many of their products JMO. 

Maybe even "grandfather" in a lower rate. Say you own Mercury or whatever the largest package is and have been loyal. That should be worth some kind of a benny.

Probably won't happen, but I think it would be a great company gesture to the dedicated loyal customers who bought a lot of stuff.

29 minutes ago, Tezza said:

If your young and fit, with the right amount of pressure, you should be able to make the distance to deliver the magic milk. But for some of the older guys around here, well, lets just say it's not an in-gene-ious solution.

Since you say "if" I can see that. Plenty of unhealthy young people and healthy older people. In your line of work you probably only see the unhealthy ones. Roight?

In any case.....gravity can be your friend.

This is the way I eventually used mine as well. Pushing those harmonies way down in volume.  In my case I joined a group with talented vocalists later on and didn't see the need for it any longer.

Now I'm back to square 1.  No vocalists. I had to let one go who couldn't sing well enough to make it. I was taken to task over it. I quit because they didn't trust me to make those calls even when I was the one designated to make those calls. It was a soap opera but I'll spare you the details.

So.........I might need one of those again. That is if I ever play out again.

I guess the social distancing thing went away for these guys? 

If we are to stay 6ft away, how will they make babies in the future?

10 hours ago, craigb said:

Wait...  Here he is!  Looking like Pope JonBouy!  ?

I believe the straw hat look is "in" now. You can put it on backwards and no one will know. Show up in California wearing one and immediately everyone will think you're from West Virginia. The number of teeth would determine the exact locale. Marrying your cousin narrows it a bit more.

Pope JonBouy? He's a pope now is he?  Just tell him he's like the rest of us and I ain't kissing his ring ( or anything else of his). He can take the back of the line just like the rest of us. ?

On the whole pugs  plugs issue.  I guess I have been lucky so far. For my Waves plugins I use a  non dangling dongle. You could back over my computer with a tractor and all I need to to is  obviously replace my computer. After that just move the dongle over, download the portal and wa la. One benefit of a dongle whether it's dangling or not, is the licenses are always there.

I am surprised the old Cakewalk server is still online. Quite amazing actually. 

 I remember that unfortunate incident Dave. Was glad when you were able to recover some of the gear.  I can't imagine going through that. 

A man took his sick dog to the vet. Vet picks up dog and looks at him.

Vet- I believe I'm going to  have to put him down

Dog owner- OMG!!! WHY!!!!

Vet- He's getting heavy.

I feel for you. Pugs can be a real problem...........oh, you said plugs.

Bapu you're on a roll.

I guess I thought about the naked part because I seen a band on Vimeo and they were playing in the buff. 

I'm not sure where the elephants came from. I guess I was trying to think big.

I had an older version of this. It was just "ok" for me. Nothing spectacular. On a few occasions I forgot to disengage it while talking to the audience.  That wasn't cool.

The main issue with these boxes is the harmonies are too perfect and end up sounding more robotic than human.

The hardest part might be obtaining toilet paper.  I'm getting wiped out just thinking about it.

Might find some in  church...holy roller? At least we solved the ugly problem.

Well.........this is a pic of me a few years ago. The snow blower in the pic wasn't big enough to do the job so this year I bought another much larger one.

...........................it never snowed. Think of all the music gear I could have bought. Instead I have an 8hp paper weight. Oh Well 

My end price was 159.00 for Horizon and a bunch of other plugins I bought. This included  a $180.00 voucher.. I updated the Waves portal. The plugins I have probably compare favorably to the Melda MTotalFX Bundle. Check it out HERE. My price for that bundle is $1,913 Dollars. I have a few Melda plugins and they are great plugins, but in answer to the comments that Melda has updates for life. While this is true, I am probably under 500.00 for my collection  so far and that includes 2 WUPs.  

Highly Underrated. A nice set of tools in this plugin.

I didn't list this in the FX thread because It's more of an instrument. 

If your looking for a comment that might help you get further in exposing your music, I'm sorry I can't offer you that.  Back in the day , and even to some extent now pending a more normal  playing schedule for bands, the best way to gain some extra $$ was to pitch your CDs and than have them on a table in the back of the room along with the T-shirts. Make sure you have a break or two during the concert. Direct people to the snacks bars and restrooms first and then also casually mention the CD table. The better more well known bands will do better. 

People liked you enough to show up for a concert and pay for it. Most people come to concerts with a little extra money thinking they will eat out afterwards etc etc etc... People like to have a keepsake. Even if that CD ends up as a doorstop or gets buried in a pile of junk eventually they will buy it. In my case, I buy them, listen once or maybe twice then forget about it. 5 years later I'm cleaning out my glove box to sell the car and come across it.

Musicians think they have an edge now in selling online. It's really a disadvantage because no one knows who you are or cares. If you don't play out or get some kind of exposure or have some kind of a memorable schtick like playing naked or using dancing elephants in your act you will be "just another rock band" with "just another rock band" sound. The big acts were chosen and funded by large corporate interests with deep pockets. It's like you can strike gold in Alaska eventually if you're willing to put millions up front and take several years doing it. 

The older I get the more I see right through all of the crap. Famous musicians are often minimally talented shills who are simply "products" to be marketed. Use any angle you can , the devil, se** whateva brings in the dough. Don't think for one minute it has anything to do with music.

The Dirge Of Purge

The Happy Scalers

Submarine Susie

Captain Cakewalk

Deep Dive Delight

The Saltwater Seaquacks

Sea Monkey Escapade

The Bubble Pumpers

The Lurchin Urchins

 Clapping Wave Riot

The Crabby Louts

 Fighting Oarsmen

 Ship Me Timbres

The Anchor Jerks

The Chilly Whillys

Blackbeard's Privates

The Hooked Mariners

The Dancing Flounders

Shrunken Matey

The Luna Tunas

The Horney Whales

The Swinging Harpoons

The Mass of Mast

The Holy Sails

...............the, never mind